Despite a robust legal framework and a wide range of national anti-corruption mechanisms, authorities in Albania have not effectively cracked down on money laundering, the Council of Europe said in a report published Monday.
A former business partner of resigned US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn illegally acted as an agent of the Turkish government, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday.
For the third consecutive year, more than 250 journalists worldwide are imprisoned in retaliation for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its annual survey released last week.
The Attorney General of Malaysia filed criminal charges on Monday against three former Goldman Sachs employees and a 1Malaysia Development Bhd worker for arranging false bonds to misappropriate US$2.7 billion.
United States federal agents discovered over five dozen live finches stuffed in hair rollers and hidden inside a duffel bag at New York’s John F Kennedy international airport, the country’s Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement Wednesday.
Authorities arrested on Wednesday 14 alleged members of a transnational gold smuggling ring in Italy, Romania and Turkey for criminal association, money laundering and trafficking stolen goods.
A former congressional staffer who helped a United States representative defraud charitable donors of more than a million dollars over the course of four years was sentenced to 18 months in prison, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Georgian authorities directed French police on Monday to catch 22 members of Eastern European and Central Asian gangs that robbed houses, stole cars, ran a stolen goods ring, created false documents and trafficked drugs across Europe.
The United States Justice Department is backing a whistleblower complaint against a healthcare services provider that allegedly exaggerated patients’ illnesses to inflate reimbursements from the country’s national health insurance program.
Italian authorities arrested on early Tuesday morning one person and searched 25 homes looking for the alleged boss of a major Sicilian mafia clan who is hiding from them for more than two decades.